AI: If You're Lonely, Try Chatterbots

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Excerpt from "The New Straits Times" (4/5/99), Copyright 1999

THE first six sites will put you in touch with chatterbots ready to receive your questions; the remaining sites feature information about chatterbot technology and artificial intelligence.

• Alice Nexis (http://birch.eecs.lehigh.edu/alice): Richard Wallace's chatterbot has the evasive style of a politician.
• Neuromedia (http://www.neuromedia.com): Corporate chatterbot answers questions about Neuromedia's chatterbot software.
• Barry (http://www.fringeware.com/bot/barry.html): Fringeware's Barry De Facto customer service chatterbot and this year's Turing test titleholder.
• Julia's home page (http://www.fuzine.com/mlm/julia.html): Perhaps the most widely used chatterbot, Julia lives all over the Internet in text-based chat rooms.
• Start (http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/infolab/start.html): Massachusetts Institute of Technology chatterbot answers questions about the university's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and world geography.
• The Simon Laven page (http://www.toptown.com/hp/sjlaven): A chatterbot fan page with news, reviews and a link to Eliza, a chatterbot that simulates a psychoanalyst's conversation with a patient.
• Botspot (http://www.botspot.com): A comprehensive guide to all types of bot designs and applications.
• The Forbin Project (http://birch.eecs.lehigh.edu/alice/forbin.html): This site documents conversations between chatterbots. Its name is taken from a 1969 film in which a Russian supercomputer and an American one plot to take over the world.
• Home page of the Loebner Prize (http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebnerprize. html): Past winners, sample dialogues and entry information from the annual Turing test.

Doug Bailey
doug.bailey@ey.com
nanotech@cwix.com

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